Green Economics Education

Internship, Scholars and Students Programmes –

Summer, Fall, Winter

The Green Economics Institute is currently recruiting NOW for  work placement and interns and Visiting Scholars and students of all ages and backgrounds to start now and throughout  the year. Most of our interns present at conferences and get to lecture and teach and speak at a very high level and several represent us at COP and other world class events for example at United Nations Sustainable Development Conferences where we have our own delegations.Nearly all have their work published. Please email us to register your interest at   and we will contact you with further information.

Options for Courses : (Most of our courses are suitable for Erasmus Plus, CPD, University Acreditation etc. Please ask us how the courses meet your own particular requirements).

• Charity Work Experience with our Green Economics Institute Trust

• Work Placement for Work Experience, administration, management, conference running, marketing, writing, editing, books. Public speaking, lecturing.

• Academic Internship or study placements. Writing or editing academic work – our academic journal, our conference proceedings

• Books and publishing writing, editing, production, reviewing
  

• Conference and event administration and management

• Professional Examinations and qualifications

• Short 1-2 -3 day courses

• Remote study from home

• Remote work placement from home

• Remote academic study from home

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•  Post Graduate Study 1-2-3- 6 months supervised study, Fellowships,Visiting Scholars

• Undergraduate course (This option is in development and we can send details to you)

• Masters Programme – currently in development and we will send you details

• PhD Programme – currently in development and we will send you details

• One book of your academic study – for Publication with the Institute

• Open Book Examinations with certified Conference Attendance

• Continuous Professional Education (CPD) Events throughout the year- please ask for dates and details

• Internships- a formal taught course which works as a bridge between college and the world of work (Very popular course with over 400 students having gone through the programme.)

• Career planning and tasting placements.

• Erasmus Plus – internships and study placements (Our most popular course)

• Post Doctoral Study, Research and Writing.

• European Union Youth in Action Courses with partners delivering it together. Please enquire if you’d like to partner for our next course

• Bespoke in house courses- we have run these and training in such varied environments as the UK Cabinet Office, Montenegro, Venice International University, Oxford, Berlin and many other places for many organisations, the International Labour Organisation of Trade Unions.

• Supervised Research and innovation leading to a report or book or other publication and a public event.

• Writing – learning to write –with formal tuition and supervision – leading to Publication of your writing in our books.

• Dissertation Supervision for your course

Health and Safety

Any student deliberately contravening health and safety instructions, potentially endangering themselves or others, will be asked to leave immediately without a refund.

All students must fill in a Health and Safety form on arrival in order to ensure we can look after you during your period with us. We require all students to register with a Doctor and Dentist whilst they are with us.

Work Experience, Study Placements & Internships

As we are a very small charity we have to charge to cover the expenses incurred in providing you with a first class and in-depth training and learning experience.

No one is turned away because they can’t afford it but we do ask all students to contribute to the life of the Institute in concrete ways.

All students are required to pay the following:

£60 compulsory Institute membership for one year

Internship course costs, insurances and tuition costs we incur for you.(We ask all students to obtain their own health insurance please)

We offer three routes for study placements and internships.

a) Remote –via skype or similar £260 per student for the whole period- usually 3 months.

b) Academic –ie not working but studying guided by us with some publishing of your work if suitable. We  charge for this course of study for up to 3 months (not including food, travel or accommodation). Please email us for the costs of your course

c) Work experience for students as part of your course or independently, joining in all activities- for a rich and varied experience

Total costs  per student to cover insurances etc as above for up to 3 months (Excluding accommodation, travel and food).Please email for costs

 

We provide formal and full feedback to your university and references where required and certificates at all levels depending on your achievement and effort.

Application Form for all our courses

The Green Economics Institute Charitable Trust Study Placements, Fellowships, Post Doctoral Study, Post Graduate Study, Interns/Scholars/study/work experience/charity work Application Form

Reforming Economics: Changing Economics ! Re- balancing the Global Economy! Greening the Global Economy! Healing the Global Economy! Reclaiming the Commons! Innovations and Change Making. Including our  Annual Conference July 2019 to be held at the Unviersity of Oxford including unique short training courses
Please fill in this application form to apply for all our courses:

Please fill in all sections. Basic Contact Information Name

Surname

Title

Institution (if applicable) Date of completion of this form Postal Address

Country – of origin, passport, and residency

Email address Facebook Phone numbers mobile:

How did you hear about the Green Economics Institute

How did you hear about the internship programme?

Do you have expertise, knowledge or experience in this area?

Allergies or other health issues

Special mobility requirements

Do you require a visa to work in this country ?
Do you have a visa ? if so please email it with this application
No applications will be considered unless the student shows at the time of application

Either a) eligibility to work in the Uk

b) eligibility to work in the EU

b) visa which covers work and study in the Uk if the student is from outside the EU

c) Eu passport

d) UK passport
All applicants please send a scan of your passport on acceptance
Your Dates of availability Education so far in detail Work experience so far in detail All applicants are required to take out their own health insurance

The Green Economics Institute plans the following activities and we usually expect to take on about 25-50 students throughout the year :

Please indicate which are of interest
Campaigns  in the past- These vary each year depending on what is topical.:

The greening of food farming and agriculture Organics
GreenIT The greening of the commons, The Reform of economics: new innovations Global Banking Trees Water, rivers and seas  Biodiversity The Greening of Norway Recycling The Philosophy of Social Justice Ending the War against women The Green Economics and Enlightenment – a Bhuddhist perspective Education Older People Anti Fracking Renewables Preparing for climate confeernces COPS Climate Change Conference. Population, migration, refugees Europe and its economy Staving off Deflation The Economics of Survival Other species, animal protection and communication  Corporate Social Responsibility, Ethics and Governance And many others

Books We intend to publish 7-10 new books a year –which are you interested in helping with We usually run a high profile event – eg in Parliament -a House of Commons Event

Animal Protection, biodiversity loss and species extinction and sentient beings
We want to run an event and publish a book on this The reform of economics and our main annual conference- all the above themes and more included All students are expected to attend this event and help with it or with other conferences in the summer depending when they are with us -The main conference is  to be held in Oxford. We will help you to write in the academic proceedings and to give a speech in  Oxford during the Conference. We give you tuition in how to do that and most of our students publish in our books as well. Some publish in our academic journal and all publish in our academic proceedings and books. Training courses throughout the year to be held in Oxford.
We produce proceedings documents for all our events- would you like to help with those
We regularly visit the EU and Belgium regularly– would you like to help with that

We are producing  members magazines   and also reports and briefing papers
And we need help with those We are running 4 issues of our academic peer reviewed academic journal and we need help with those and 4 preparing for next year
We work on  academic journals We need help with that
Research –we undertake research into green economics and we need help with that We are currently working on International Trade Issues
We need help with our events and planning – can you help with that
We need lots of help with marketing. Can you help with that ?
We do many speeches throughout the year Would you like to help with those
We do stalls at fairs and events: would you like to help with those
We need a strong social media presence and advertising – would you like to help with that
We need help with administration of our activities Would you like to help with that
We are relaunching all our web presence and we need help with the content
We are relaunching all our marketing and brochures- can you help with that
We are producing a big report about the state of the world –and its economy- can you help with that.

Practical arrangements

Do you have funding to cover your placement or study

Please describe the funding and say who it is from and what it covers Do you need accommodation We are based in Reading and our conferences are regularly run at Oxford University so most students stay in Reading or Oxford either living in or living nearby. Some students work remotely via skype and some visit us regularly during their period of study and live
elsewhere. How long do you want to come to us? Please give dates when you are available

Do you want to study and work with us full time or part time or remotely

Where are you based

–please give your permanent address and email for correspondence And phone number
Home E-mail Mobile: Phone:

What can you offer the institute in your internship- or Fellowship what do you bring to it?

What are you looking for in the study period?

Is the study period or internship part of your course ?

will you need references or some kind of assessment of your work?

Here you will find information about the many choices of Study Mode Options, Fees and Conditions Options for Courses : (Most of our courses are suitable for Erasmus Plus, CPD, University Accreditation etc. Please ask us how the courses meet your own particular requirements).

1. Charity Work Experience with our Green Economics Institute Trust

2. Work Placement for Work Experience, administration, management, conference running, marketing, writing, editing, books. Public speaking, lecturing.

3. Academic Internship or study placements. Writing or editing academic work – our academic journal, our conference proceedings

4. Books and publishing writing, editing, production, reviewing

5. Conference and event administration and management

6. Professional Examinations and qualifications

7. Short 1-2 -3 day courses

8. Remote study from home

9. Remote work placement from home 10. Remote academic study from home

11. Post Graduate Study 1-2-3- 6 months supervised study, Fellowships,Visiting Scholars

12. Undergraduate course (This option is in development and we can send details to you)

13. Masters Programme – currently in development and we will send you details

14. PhD Programme – currently in development and we will send you details

15. One book of your academic study – for Publication with the Institute

16. Open Book Examinations with certified Conference Attendance

17. Continuous Professional Education (CPD) Events throughout the year- please ask for dates and details

18. Internships- a formal taught course which works as a bridge between college and the world of work (Very popular course with over 400 students having gone through the programme.)
19. Career planning and tasting placements.

20. Erasmus Plus – internships and study placements (Our most popular course)

21. Post Doctoral Study, Research and Writing

. 22. European Union Youth in Action Courses with partners delivering it together. Please enquire if you’d like to partner for our next course

23. Bespoke in house courses- we have run these and training in such varied environments as the UK Cabinet Office, Montenegro, Venice International University, Oxford, Berlin and many other places for many organisations, the International Labour Organisation of Trade Unions.

24. Supervised Research and innovation leading to a report or book or other publication and a public event.

25. Writing – learning to write –with formal tuition and supervision – leading to Publication of your writing in our books. 26. Dissertation Supervision for your course

Work Experience and Study Placements and Internships

As we are a very small charity we have to charge to cover the expenses incurred in providing you with a first class and in depth training and learning experience. No one is turned away because they cant afford it but we do ask all students to contribute to the life of the institute in concrete ways. All students are required to pay the following: £60 compulsory Institute membership for one year  and you will need to cover conference and other entrance fees for the annual conference or other conferences so you do not have to pay any entrance fee for any event we run whilst you are with us internship costs, insurances and tuition costs we incur for you.(We ask all students to obtain their own health insurance please)

We offer three routes for study placements and internships.

a) Remote –via skype or similar £500 per student for the whole period- usually 3 months

. b) Academic –ie not working but studying guided by us with some publishing of your work if suitable. We charge £750 for this course of study for up to 3 months (not including food, travel or accommodation).

c) Work experience for students as part of your course or independently, joining in all activities- for a rich and varied experience Total per student to cover insurances etc as above for up to 3 months (Excluding accommodation, travel and food).  Please ask for the current costs

We provide formal and full feedback to your university and references where required.

Senior Courses
Senior Postgraduate and Post Doctoral Research Scholars and Directed Learning Please also state here your proposed course of research study and previous publications and research undertaken.

Course Fees for Senior Post graduate and Post Doctoral students and Research Fellows are £ 1500 per student per course, or period of study, part time with weekly supervision and tutorials to be paid on acceptance, not including accommodation.
Please fill in the information for this mode of study here:

Course Fees for Senior Post graduate and Post Doctoral students and Research Fellows For full time study with daily supervision in person or by email £3000 – £10,000 depending on your requirements and how much work we will need to do, costs of tutors, materials and costs of classrooms etc. Please discuss with us.

Please enquire about accommodation,food and travel, as there may be some available but this is charged additionally according to requirements and availability and is not included in the tuition fees. Please fill in this form and email it to us and we will discuss the possibilities with you on an individual basis.

Our Professional Examinations and Certification

Professional Examinations Leading to Letters after your name to be used permanently .GE Green Economist, and M.GEI Member of the Green Economics Institute.

These exams are offered with a course of learning which can be short – ie during a conference or longer study periods. We run the examinations twice a year. Please ask us for details and timetable The examinations are £500 and the course of study depends entirely on your previous experience.

 

Please email – filling out this form and we will send you further details. Some students are able to take this with only attendance at a 3 day conference -100% attendance is required. Others require the three month study placement or a months’ tuition. Please ask us to advise you what is best.

What is included and what is not

The above registration does not include accommodation or travel or regular food costs which you need to plan to pay yourself Scholarships For certain students with a proven cv of work experience or with proven expertise in economics or other aspect of our work, we may be able to provide scholar ships for the internships to cover some of the above registration costs but these are means tested for students from lower income countries and lower income students only, to ensure no one gets turned away as they cant afford it. We are a small charity however and scholarships tend to be provided for people with proven practical experience in the areas of administration that we need at a particular time. This especially applies to students whose country of origin has a lower average GDP per head of £15,000 Per year. Please ask us about this via email greeneconomicsinstitute@yahoo.com We will most certainly ask you to pay a pro rata fee.

Accommodation

The institute sometimes has accommodation on its premises for some students if required, ( it’s not guaranteed, & it’s not compulsory) and this is a popular option and gets full quickly so please apply for accommodation as soon as you know you might need it.

 

Payments

As soon as we accept you formally in writing, payments can be made via BACS, Paypal. Please ask for a Paypal invoice if you want to pay using a credit card. Probationary Period Any student who fails to pass their probationary period is asked to leave without a refund. We are looking for attitude and application rather than aptitude.

 

The probationary period is the first month
all students get daily feedback and monitoring and guidance for their work by email or in person from our team and after that there is a weekly assessment to ensure the student remains on track. We expect all students to develop and improve substantially in this period, we attract the brightest and the best and we look for attitude more than aptitude. A keen student is likely to do very well indeed with us.

Misleading Information

Any student found to have given misleading or deliberately incorrect application information will be asked to leave immediately without a refund.

Health and Safety

Any student deliberately contravening health and safety instructions, potentially endangering themselves or others, will be asked to leave immediately without a refund. All students must fill in a Health and Safety Form on arrival in order to ensure we can look after you during your period with us. We require all students to register with a Doctor and Dentist whilst they are with us.

Forms or information we will need before you begin with us

A) Confidentiality statement

t B) Permission to Publish your work

C) Health and Safety Statement so we can look after you correctly should the need arise

D) Statement of Insurance

E) Information that you can support yourself financially

F) Scan of your passport

G) Next of kin details in the event of an emergency

H) On going contact details so we can send you certificates etc.

I) Evidence of your accommodation being organised and practical arrangements whilst with us

J) Contact details of your tutor or University or Erasmus Programme Manager in case we need to contact them

K) A mobile phone number for you whilst you are with us for emergencies

L) A Cv

M) This form filled in

N) All fees, accommodation costs etc have to be paid before the commencement of studies and at least 2 weeks before arrival so that any last minute requirements can be organised in good time. Please ensure you manage the process of providing these documents to us, by email is best.( They are kept confidentially and not shared with anyone outside the Institutes’ Tutorial Teaching team)